![]() To understand the tangle, the clock needs to turn back nine years, to the 2007 auction where Maier, who kept her pictures almost entirely to herself, first came to light. Even stranger, the threat is coming not from a litigious distant Maier relative, seeking to cash in on her sudden recent fame, but from the government of Cook County, Ill. With copyright now in dispute, any sale or fee could put him in violation of U.S. The dispute has left Bulger’s hands tied. Earlier this year, Maier, whose posthumous renown flowed as much from her mysterious circumstances as her obvious gifts, became embroiled in a murky legal standoff over who owned the copyright to her many thousands of images. ![]() I can’t risk everything I have for this.”īulger’s prudence is well-founded. “We get phone calls, literally, every day,” Bulger said recently. So it’s more than a little odd to find 46 of her pictures now hanging in the Stephen Bulger Gallery, one of the country’s top photography dealers - he owns some 15,000 negatives of her work - but not a single one for sale. ![]() ![]() It also produced a hot market of buyers eager to own some of her work, the value of which now likely stretches into the millions of dollars. Her posthumous fame produced an Oscar-nominated documentary in 2015, Finding Vivian Maier, and legions of followers. Most by now know the curious tale of Vivian Maier, the Chicago-based nanny of no otherwise special import who, shortly after her death in 2009, was revealed to be an astonishingly gifted street photographer. ![]()
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